Birthday Cake etc.

GAAAAAAAAH! I'm so behind!!! Pictures first. Here is the birthday cake from last week! With First buttercream rose.

This is my Birthday cake for a lady I work with. She smokes and drinks and loves both. She also ADORES oranges.SO she got a white, orange marmalade filled cake with chocolate orange buttercream frosting. IT was delish. well so I'm told. I got sick of looking at how lopsided it was so i didnt eat any. She loved it! Here are some pics of it. The rose is my very first wilton rose! I did it all myself. *is very proud* If you really want the recipe let me know. its mostly premade stuff except for the frosting.

Buttercream...

Ok I have officially decided that wilton buttercream is kinda...yuck. I don't like it very much. I just made like....3 batches of it for my Decorating Class at Michaels. One is pretty good because I played with it a lot more. Its a chocolate orange buttercream. THe orange isnt overpowering. Its just barely in the background which is pretty cool. I've eaten too much icing. It's my weakness. I LOVE icing. I expect to get fat off of it. but now I'm kind of sick to my stomach.

I wish I could give you the recipe for the chocolate orange but I just kept adding different amounts. All I can tell you is that it has about 1/2 C. cocoa powder, 2 tbsp. orange juice, 1 tsp orange zest and 2 tsp orange extract. *shrug* these are approximate additions. the icing is about a thin consistency. Perfect for icing cakes. Which was my goal. I'm making a White cake with orange curd filling and chocolate orange icing for someones birthday. Pictures will of course follow the completed piece.